Dirigible support for lamps.



F. JACKSON. DIRIGIBLE SUPPORT FOR LAMPS. APPLICATION FILED 11.1 110, 1910.

93, 3 Patented Jan.31, 1911.

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FAREADAY, 0F ItiOUNTAIN HOME, IDAHO.

DIRIGIBLE SUI-P0113? FOR LAMPS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 31, 19th.

Application filed May it), 1910. Serial 1810. 5613,8316.

To all whom itmoy concern:

lie it known that I, FRANK JACKSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mountain Home, in the county of Elmore and State of Idaho, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dirigible Supports for Lamps, of which the tollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to automobiles and comprises certain mechanism associated with a vehicle for turning the lamps at the front end thereof in the same direction as the front wheels are turned, when the latter are actuated by the steering means which is of the ordinary type.

The object oi the invention is to provide improvements in any devices heretofore pat ented and which are designed for the purpose above set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a motor vehicle showing the invention applied thereto; Fig. 2 is a top plan View showing the parts of the invention, and the steering mechanism associated directly therewith, in full lines, the body of the vehicie being shown in dotted lines; Fig. 3 is a section taken about on the. line 33 0r Fig. 2 and showing more clearly the connecting means between the operating bars of the lamps and the steering mecha- 111.5111, whereby the wheels and the lamps are simultaneously moved.

Throughout the following detail description and on the several figures of the drawings, similar parts are referred to by iike retereilce characters.

in carrying out the present invention, it is contemplated that the means comprising the same may be employed with a conventionai type of steering mechanism tor the front wheels of the vehicle, and it is to be under-- stood that the invention may be used in con-.

the latter being connected together by a.

bar 7. Suitably mounted on the vehicle body is a steering shaft 8 provided with the hand wheel 9 at its upper end, and the lower end of said shaft has an arm 10, a connecting rod 1]. connecting said arm 10 with one oi the steering arms 6. Intermediate of its ends, the operating bar 7 connecting the stub axles 5 is provided with a forwardly extending bracket 12 provided with an opening at its front end through which passes a downwardly extending member 13 which is carried by a lamp operating bar let. The bar 14 is horizontally arranged and connccted at its ends with the rearwardly pro jecting arms of the lamps 16, the latter being mounted for movement about vertical axes and supported on the frame of the ve hicle body.

it will be apparent that when the steering wheel 9 is turned, the operating bar 7 will be shifted horizontally to move the front wheels 2 of the vehicle in the customary manner. By reason of the connection of the bracket- 12 with the depending arm'or member 13 of the bar 1 the shifting of the bar '3 will simultaneously shift the lamp operating bar 14 in the same direction and eiiect the desired turning movement or the lamps so that the light rays projected therefrom wili always be in the direction in which the vehicle is going. Since the vehicle body 1 is yieldably supported on the axle 3 by springs, it is necessary that the connection between the lamps and the operating bar 7 shall. accommodate for relative vertical movement of the two bars 7 and 1 and tense the provision of the depending arm 13 that passes through the opening in the bracket 12, thereby affording practically a sliding connection between the parts 7 and 14 so that the lamps may be readily operated from the'bars 7 irrespective of the position of the bar as it moves up and down with the vehicle body in passing over obstacles causing resilient movement of the springs 4t. A lateral projection 13 at the lower end of the depending arm 13 prevents 1 disconnection'ot the bracket 12,"said bracket extending over and normally resting on the front axle 3.

Having thus described the invention, What is claimed as new is In combination, a vehicle body, a front supporting axle, steering wheels connected with said axle, steering mechanism connected with said wheels including an operating bar slnttable horizontally, lamps on ing the same and movablewlth the vehicle 5 bcdy relatively to the operating bar connected to the Wheels, a bracket projecting laterally from the Wheel shifting bar, an arm depending from ilze lamp operating bar and passing throu h said bracket to afi'orcl sliding connection therewith and a pr0jectien at the lower end of said depending arm eespae,

preventing disconnection of the same from 10 the bracket.

In testimony W119i( f I aifix my signature in presence of t "0 Witnesses.

FRANK JACKSON.

Witnesses:

ALVA A. WHITE,-f F. E. AUSTIN. 

